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Blood and Bones

Re: [newmellotrongroup] Blood and Bones

2014-06-07 by markpringnz

Glad you liked it Pete, it's one of my favourite Woolly songs. It is so sad that there won't be anything more. Woolly was unlucky not to be more successful, he wrote some great songs.

Mark

Re: [newmellotrongroup] Blood and Bones

2014-06-08 by Martin

Woolly's songs need close scrutiny of the chords to get his feel. He would work on them endlessly to get the inflection his was after at given points of the song. To retain the essence of his songs, simplification of the chord structure robs the character. He was never a C,F and G man if a flattened fifth or whole tone progression could be incorporated. In Blood and Bones there is a glorious whole tone moment. Get spotting!

He also loved changing things and had several different chordal endings to Iron Maiden. He would shout out No. 3 and they would go a rehearsed but alternative route!

M

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On 7 Jun 2014, at 21:07, markpringnz <no_reply@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

Glad you liked it Pete, it's one of my favourite Woolly songs. It is so sad that there won't be anything more. Woolly was unlucky not to be more successful, he wrote some great songs.

Mark

Re: [newmellotrongroup] Blood and Bones

2014-06-08 by markpringnz

Hi Martin,

Thanks for your comments, they have been very thought provoking!

Obviously I am a C F G man, well I am pretty sure there is an a minor and possibly a d minor in there somewhere. I wasn't trying to sound like Woolly, what on earth would be the point? I was trying to sound like myself doing a cover of one of Woolly's songs. It was meant as a tribute.

Not being an artist myself I don't know how I would feel if anyone covered one of my songs in the way I have covered Woolly's. You were Woolly's friend, if you think this would have offended him please let me know and I will remove it.

Best wishes


Mark

Re: [newmellotrongroup] Blood and Bones

2014-06-08 by Martin

Hi Mark

Of course you haven't offended anyone. My point is that sometimes you cannot remove or simplify too much or the essence is lost. Blood and Bones is a complicated bugger but without those complications, nuances of chord, specific intervals, any tribute would be so distant from the original that it is only in name itself. I am too precious but there it is.

My best

M

Mellotronics.com on my iPad
Celebrating 50 years of mellotrons

On 8 Jun 2014, at 21:31, markpringnz <no_reply@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

Hi Martin,

Thanks for your comments, they have been very thought provoking!

Obviously I am a C F G man, well I am pretty sure there is an a minor and possibly a d minor in there somewhere. I wasn't trying to sound like Woolly, what on earth would be the point? I was trying to sound like myself doing a cover of one of Woolly's songs. It was meant as a tribute.

Not being an artist myself I don't know how I would feel if anyone covered one of my songs in the way I have covered Woolly's. You were Woolly's friend, if you think this would have offended him please let me know and I will remove it.

Best wishes


Mark